June 2026 — BigCommerce & Platform news.
What changed, as it happens.
Tracked daily from primary sources. The items below are what we're watching for clients right now.
BigCommerce Catalyst 1.8.0 adds Tax Display support and a channel-link CLI
Catalyst v1.8.0 now renders product prices as Inc. Tax, Ex. Tax, or Both based on the store’s Tax Display setting, closing a long-standing gap for EU/UK Catalyst storefronts. A new `channel link` CLI command connects a Catalyst project to a storefront channel and writes credentials to .env.local automatically.BigCommerce →
Merchant Center: how to control or remove “Found by Google” products
Google documented two ways to control “Found by Google” items — products it discovers by crawling your site rather than from a submitted feed. Apply a Pause attribute rule to auto-archive them after 14 days, or add the `data-nosnippet` attribute to product pages to stop Google discovering them via crawl.Search Engine Roundtable →
BigCommerce introduces PayPal StoreSync for agentic commerce
BigCommerce announced PayPal StoreSync, an agentic-commerce integration that syncs BigCommerce store data with PayPal. Full feature details are still rolling out from the announcement post.BigCommerce →
BigCommerce ships an MCP server so AI tools can read its developer docs
A new “AI Agent Setup” page connects BigCommerce’s developer documentation directly to AI coding tools — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Claude Desktop — via an MCP server, with one-click install snippets. It makes the BigCommerce API queryable straight from an AI agent.BigCommerce →
Shopify makes its new Analytics experience the default for all stores
The rebuilt Analytics — real-time data, custom dashboards, metric/dimension explorations, and ShopifyQL querying — now replaces the legacy reports interface automatically on every store. Worth verifying saved reports survived the switch.Shopify Changelog →
BigCommerce opens a Feedonomics Surface closed beta for marketplace sync
BigCommerce launched a US-only closed beta of Feedonomics Surface, which syncs marketplace inventory and pricing across Amazon FBM, eBay, and TikTok Shop. Merchant signups are open through August 5, 2026.BigCommerce →
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